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Re: Dalai's private commissary met Bei Jing officials in Shen Zhen

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Originally Posted by xy_god View Post
No, that's not true!
When I express our Chinese's views, you will shout that we have brainwashed by our government!
When I express our Chinese's views, you will say the we are propagandizing religious view!
How to communicate with you westerners?
It's too difficult!
So, I have to say to myself or to we Chinese!
If you want to exchange views with us, you must believe and respect Chinese first!
And we will also!
Understand?
My english was very bad when I joined this board in 2002, and I am still making many mistakes. And I am in no way saying that you are brainwashed. But I think you haven't started to push your personal horizon further.

Also, I respect the chinese people. But there is a serious difference between your people and mine: In Germany, it is part of our mentality that a friend has to point out your mistakes and speak openly with you from time to time. People from other countries, especially from Asia, consider this to be rude. I think tough love is the only true love. I love speaking openly, and I honour people for speaking openly. An upright human beeing who cannot take another man's truth is - in my eyes - not an upright human beeing. I also have no problem with explicit language. Sometimes, you gotta spice up an issue and polarize, in order to save people from dying of boredom.

So if you read criticism on your gouvernment about certain stuff, you must understand that this is meant as an advice, not as an insult. I consider the chinese people and culture as to be one of the most fascinating and admirable ones. But there are certain things that are totally fucked up in China. And Tibet certainly is one of those things.
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